Interdisciplinary Research and Education (IDRE)

Description

The Interdisciplinary Research and Education (IDRE) community is made up of individuals from diverse academic disciplines and institutional positions involved in IDRE. We engage with each other to improve the knowledge, ability, and capacity for enabling, leading, evaluating, and participating more effectively in IDRE. We welcome you to explore our community pages and attend our next event!.

Aspirations

We aspire to be a vibrant, supportive community focused on expanding our knowledge base and skills for effectively leading IDRE and providing access to best practices, methods and tools that facilitate successful IDRE.

KEYWORDS

Collaboration
IDR
Interdisciplinary
Team science

COMMUNITY MEMBERS

Everett, Louis
Member

Professor

Engineering - Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering

robotics, automation, machine design, control, embedded controllers, PLC, programming, sensor applications

Featured: Awards

Gates, Ann
Member

Professor

Engineering - Computer Science

Software Engineering, Verification and Validation, Requirements Engineering, Cyberinfrastructure, Workflows, Computing Education, Undergraduate Research

Featured: Awards

Genna, Gaspare
Member

Professor

Liberal Arts - Political Science and Public Administration

regional integration, globalization, international cooperation, political economy, political psychology, political trust, social trust

Goodson, Amanda
Member

Assistant Professor

Liberal Arts - Criminal Justice and Security Studies

Victimology, violence against women, system responses to crime victims, gender and crime, intersectionality and victimization

Guerra, Chris
Member

Assistant Professor

Liberal Arts - Criminal Justice and Security Studies

Immigration, Antisocial Behavior, Individual-level, Policing Issues, Cybercrime

Related Efforts

UTEP Interdisciplinary Research Symposium

Contact: Andrea Tirres

Website

The UTEP Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) Symposium seeks to build on the momentum of campus IDR activities that have included connection-building events & increased interest in interdisciplinary research funds. The symposium typically includes an opening reception with poster presentations followed the next day with various sessions exploring the symposium’s theme. The 2014 theme was Rewarding and Recognizing Interdisciplinary Research. Contact idrutep@utep.edu to help plan the next symposium.

IDR Enhancement Program

Funding: Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (ORSP) & Office of the Provost.

Contact: Andrea Tirres

The Provost and the Office of Research and Sponsored Projects issue a Request for Proposals for interdisciplinary research enhancement on an annual and/or biannual basis. Awards to interdisciplinary teams are typically in the amount of $20,000 per team. Eligibility requirements, authorized use of funds, proposal structure, review processes and criteria, & requirements of awardees are described in the RFP. Term of the award is typically one year. To date, there have been four rounds of funding.

Related Centers

Cyber-ShARE

Related Communities

Community of Engaged Scholars

Cyber-Security

Smart Cities

Mycoted

Effective Practice

Resource Link

Mycoted is a company dedicated to improving creativity and innovation for solving problems. This is a central repository for tools, techniques, mind exercises, puzzles, book reviews etc.

Team Science Learning Modules

Effective Practice

Resource Link

Health-oriented website put together by social scientists at Northwestern who conduct research on team science. It is free, but requires registration.

I2S

Effective Practice

Resource Link

I2S is a group in Australia who are promoting the idea of a new discipline, which they call Integration and Implementation Science. They provide a variety of resources focused on: Synthesising disciplinary and stakeholder knowledge; Understanding and managing diverse unknowns; Providing integrated research support for policy and practice change; systems thinking; scoping and boundary setting; framing; dealing with values; harnessing and managing differences

Enabling science and technology research teams: a breadmaking metaphor

Document

Resource Link

An article I wrote to highlight, in an interesting, readable way, issues in team science that have been identified by empirical research. This is light reading - 15 minutes tops. I have used this metaphor in a variety of presentations and discussions, and most people seem to like it.

DIALOG SOURCES

I3 Move Communities provide a way to share expertise, resources, and community information to the general public. There are numerous tools available, both open source and proprietary, for engaging in dialog and sharing information and knowledge within a closed group.

This community engages in dialog as follows:

None specified to date.